Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he doesn’t expect a war
with the U.S. despite the “wish” of some in the U.S. government.

“I don’t expect such a thing to happen,” Ahmadinejad told the Al
Jazeera English-language television in an interview in Tehran yesterday,
according to a transcript published on the president’s website today.
“Yes, there are certain individuals in the U.S. administration who have
such a wish but facing them are some reasonable people in that country
who know this shouldn’t happen.”

Military force should not be ruled out as a response to an alleged
Iranian assassination plot on U.S. soil, Michigan Representative Mike
Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, said Oct. 16 on ABC’s “This Week.” Iranian officials have
rejected the accusation, calling it a fabrication.